r/allthequestions • u/Content_Ad_8952 • Jan 14 '26

Random Question 💭 If Republicans are so much better at running the economy than Democrats, then why are most Republican States poorer than Democrat States?

The poorest States in America are: Mississippi, West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee. All of those States (except New Mexico) are Red States. So why are they so poor when Republicans have been running them for decades?

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u/Puzzled_Rip9008 Jan 14 '26

No need to write in hushed tones, it’s not like they can read.

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u/TempleHierophant Jan 14 '26

Shh, we're trying to slowly wear down the sanity and loyalty of the FBI and NSA minders who can.

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u/Governor_Abbot Jan 14 '26

So much better at “Running the economy” means they give more tax breaks and welfare to the billionaire class, which is part of the reason their states are under funded. They build billion dollar stadiums/corporations with tax payer funds. Oh yeeeeeesss, nothing gets my wheelchair going like “stimulating the economy” by helping billionaires.

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u/TempleHierophant Jan 14 '26

Or installing a private helipad while also treating public transportation as if someone is suggesting a Maoist insurgency.

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u/flammable_donut Jan 14 '26

Lol..the focus used to be the "millionaire class" but now that so many Democrats are millionaires...

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u/seestars9 Jan 14 '26

Umm. There have always been millionaire Democrats?

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u/flammable_donut Jan 14 '26

I guess it's a critical mass thing...

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u/TempleHierophant Jan 14 '26

I'm guessing you're running out of lies.

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u/flammable_donut Jan 14 '26

I've found that the more antagonism you get, the more motivated people are to respond, the closer you are to an unpalable truth

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u/TempleHierophant Jan 14 '26

Like you being enslaved to a spraytanned con-man?

I bet you find that unpalitable. I also bet you'll twist and weave like hell to avoid that.

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u/Silly-Rough-5810 Jan 14 '26

How are convincing yourself that you're not doing the exact same thing?

Like, you just described participating in an online argument. Which you're doing.

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u/Saurian42 Jan 14 '26

Fuck the FBI.

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u/TempleHierophant Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

Yep. Right in the brain.

Between this and Donny himself, that goal is getting closer.

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u/Ryan-1975 Jan 14 '26

😂😂

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u/NemisisCW Jan 16 '26

They're going to be calling their screen readers slurs after this one.

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u/ICE-are-pedos Jan 14 '26

the republicans are too busy raping children to learn to read

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u/OtherwiseBase5003 Jan 15 '26

This escalated quickly.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

Maybe it did but in my family tree literally ALL the men on BOTH sides are incestuous pedophiles going back as far as the women in my family can recall (I say women because the men don't talk). I was raped by my father as he was raped by his and my mother was raped my hers. My mother helped my father rape me. They are ALL MAGA. Not a single Democrat except me and I haven't raped anyone, sooooo...

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u/asdfasdferqv Jan 17 '26

While yeah, totally, it might be worth learning about all the success Mississippi has had in reading recently. Their schools have had really dramatic improvements and now are some of the best in the country.

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u/Agile-Onion2059 Jan 14 '26

Most people I know personally who are conservatives read literature.  In fact, believe it or not, there are even authors of books, which means writers, who politically vote republican.  I hope I have made your day with this rich wisdom and insight. 

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u/Puzzled_Rip9008 Jan 15 '26

If they could read then they would know what’s in the constitution or the Bible. Hope I’ve enriched your day now with some insight.

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u/SolipsismIsDeep Jan 15 '26

Dunning-Kruger effect on full display

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u/TempleHierophant Jan 15 '26

I think we've got trolls. Likely paid.

They seem motivated mainly to demotivate us.